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What plant and other problems.

michaelechambersmichaelechambers Posts: 2
in Problem solving
Planted 7 years ago. Not sure of name. Flowered first time late last year. This year leaves tatty and a few weeks ago 5 new plants started growing underneath plant. Do I just leave them alone. See pics.

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's a Yucca. Those will be new plants growing nearby. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's probably had a hard winter.  The variegated forms aren't as hardy as the plain green ones.

    I have ne with a finer cream strip than yours and which I cleverly planted out last autumn on the grounds that winters here are mild.  It wasn't - long, cold, wet and frozen periods which turned the top to mush but I left it as I could see buds down the stem and, lo and behold, it has lots of new growth down the stem.

    I dare say as it matures that new plants will pop up like yours and then I shall either leave them or dig them out and pot the up to plant elsewhere or share with friends.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • michaelechambersmichaelechambers Posts: 2
    I think we had a very mild winter. No snow, hardly any ice. Some cold days and nights but not too bad. It is in a windy spot. I will pot the new ones and plant elsewhere. The leaves are really rigid and pointy and really dangerous to touch.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Yes - they're very spiky plants, and not always suited to domestic gardens. They  definitely don't survive serious winter weather well though, especially wet cold which turns them mushy and would easily see them off.
    Are you not in the UK @michaelechambers? Even milder areas of the south Uk had harsher weather than they're used to. Variegated ones are less sturdy, as already said - and is quite normal for any variegated plant. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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